Changelog
Follow new updates and improvements to The Hive.
December 6th, 2024
seasonal content
Snow is falling, and the air is cold; that can only mean one thing - it’s time for Winterfest!
Puzzled Presents
Santa has hidden some festive art pieces all around the hub, but there’s a catch – they’ve been completely scrambled!
Can you piece them back together and uncover the hidden holiday scenes? Rumour has it that successful players might uncover some frosty surprises along the way!
Up for the challenge? Talk to Santa's elf at spawn!
12 Days of Gifting
Starting December 14th, a new surprise will await you under the Winterfest tree each day. Don’t forget to log in daily to unwrap your special gift!
Remember, each gift is a one-day delight – available for just 24 hours. Once it’s gone, it’s gone!
Wintery Wonderlands
Adding to the festivities, all of your favourite winter-themed maps and lobbies have returned.
With over 50 magical worlds to explore, bundle up and dive into the fun!
Holiday Surprises
Keep an eye out for more Winterfest surprises over the coming weeks!
December 4th, 2024
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To celebrate the release of the Minecraft “The Garden Awakens” update, we’re excited to announce the immediate availability of the Phantom Frames Add-On on the Marketplace, entirely for free!
This add-on brings over 40 magical paintings to your Minecraft world, available from the art dealer. Walking through a placed painting portals you to distant lands - ideal for large survival worlds!
Get it on the Minecraft Marketplace (free!)
This is a client (game) add-on, not related to or available on the Hive Minigame server.
December 1st, 2024
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Ice cold and cunning... The Arctic Fox costume can now be purchased from the Quest Store!
November 28th, 2024
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Our best deal of the year returns! The Block Friday bundle is available NOW for a limited time!
For just 990 Minecoins, this jam-packed bundle includes all of the following:
EXCLUSIVE Nibbles Pet
EXCLUSIVE Snappy Mount
EXCLUSIVE Couch Mount
EXCLUSIVE Solar Hat
1 Replay Cinema Pass
3 Costume Gifts
1 Gift Token
This bundle will only be available for a limited time. Once gone, the exclusive cosmetics will never be available again!
The bundle can also be gifted to other players. You can purchase bundle gifts through the /gift menu, with 6 gift tokens.
November 27th, 2024
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We’re excited to announce the launch of the Hive Games Store! Starting today, you can pre-order the Pet Pin Pack which includes 3 physical pins and an exclusive in-game Ghosty pet.
If you order during the Black Friday / Cyber Monday PreSale, you’ll be able to purchase the bundle at a low introductory price (25 USD / 25 EUR / 20 GBP).
Visit HiveGames.store
Before ordering, we suggest carefully reading the FAQ: especially when it comes to delivery times (both physical and virtual items).
This is separate from the in-game Block Friday 2024 bundle, launching tomorrow (November 28th).
November 11th, 2024
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We've made various improvements to PlayHive.com, notably to its interactive features.
Profiles:
Player search has been visually improved, and now supports partial player names (enter the start of a name to get suggestions ordered by active players)
Added hats, back blings, pets and mounts
Several design improvements and fixes
Coming soon: overhauled game statistics detail improvements for mobile devices
Leaderboards:
Better use of width to display leaderboards better on mobile
More statistics are now visible on mobile
Overall:
Aligned footer with our other websites
Stay tuned for future website improvements, including minigame details pages and a full cosmetics catalogue.
If you have any suggestions for our website, make sure to submit them on our forums!
The development of our website(s) is separate from the game server and does not impact the development of our minigame and MMO servers.
November 5th, 2024
feature
Players joining now receive the status of their online friends, and pending incoming friend invites. You can disable this with a new toggle in the /toggles menu.
November 1st, 2024
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Hive-o-ween content will be leaving on Wednesday, November 6th.
If you haven't yet found all of the potion ingredients in the hub, reached the maximum level in Ghost Invasion, or collected 100 souls in Murder Mystery, now is your last chance to do so!
Once they're gone, all of this year's Hive-o-ween unlocks will never be available again!
October 31st, 2024
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Unleash your inner ram-page! The Ram costume can now be purchased from the Quest Store!
October 19th, 2024
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We have removed skill-based (ELO) matchmaking from The Bridge: Solos. This game now uses (local region) platform-based matchmaking.
Whilst The Bridge gets more than enough players for regular matchmaking, SBMM was causing excessively long matchmaking times outside of peak hours in the respective regions. Outside of these hours, the gap in skill (ELO) was so high that it was practically the same as our regular matchmaking.
For clarity, we are not vaulting The Bridge, and have no plans to do so in the foreseeable future.